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Empty Homes Tax - Bill 46 Introduced in Council!
Exciting news! A New Empty Homes Tax seeks to address our “impossibly unaffordable” housing crisis in Honolulu: Honolulu is ranked in the...
Ellen Godbey Carson
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Where are the 34 thousand empty homes on Oahu?
The 2020 US census counted 34,253 vacant housing units out of 376,209 total (9.1%) on Oahu. Vacant homes are housing units where no one...
keithwebster76
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Can Honolulu County Build Affordable Housing? (spoiler alert - Yes!)
The Honolulu City Council is considering an Empty Homes Tax (EHT), to incentivize conversion of the island’s 34,253 “empty homes” into...
keithwebster76
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Addressing Housing Speculation
Housing isn’t Just a Supply Issue, it’s Also a Demand Issue – Addressing Housing Speculation Hawai‘i's housing crisis has long been a...
Susan Le
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EHT: Other Approaches
Two ideas have emerged to create incentives using the property tax to convert Hawaii’s 75,000 vacant homes to homes that are occupied by...
keithwebster76
2 min read
Let’s House Hawaii!
The 2020 US Census counts 70,000+ Vacant Homes in Hawaii; 34,253 are on Oahu. How can this be?? We have the worst housing crisis in the...
Ellen Godbey Carson
2 min read
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